Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-30
GORDON IN OHIO.
HIS SPEECH In CINCINNATI
Jefferson Davis Reception at Macon ElO-
qusnay Discussed.
THEIR LOVE FOR The OLD FLAGS.
4 Dozen Confederate Banners Amid a Sea of
Stars and Stripes.

CINCINNATI, October 29-In referring
to the reception Of JEFF Davis Governor
Gordon, in his speech here last night, said
1T is charged that we cheered JEFF Da-
Wis. Does that mean going to war again
Let me reason. Suppose we did not
Suppose we turned our back on this pale
faced, broken-down old man. What did
be do that had not done? do not think
that shot everybody, but tried pretty
hard. You might ask me 20 turn cold
shoulder on the wife Of my bosom. She
went with me to the front; she followed me
to the camp; shared my dangers, even to
the picket, aud at times in the danger
of the battle and under Providence
| owe to her tender nursing that
nv life was spared. Why should /
hate her? II we should turn our backs on
that man, refuse him our sympathy, We
would merit the scorn of every brave man
and you would feel an absolute contempt.
When he left the U. s. Senate he left it
rich, full of regret and full of political
honors. For our sakes he became poor and
debarred for ever from political hOnors in
IN his own country. He fingers to-day
with broken health and scarcely q place
to lay his head, dragging after him the
wounded limbs with increasing suffering,
that followed him from Buena Vista"
What would you think OF me il said:
"Go hence; have no use for you" am
not going TO doit. would have contempt
for Gen. Marion who sat on the stageD if
he went back on the grand old name of
Abraham Lincoln. Put yourself III the
other fellows place. 1t was ny fortune q
few weeks ago in Philadelphia to take part
in the celebration of the adoption of the
Constitution, and when Georgia had
taken her part was proud
as stood in the streets, to see the shat
tered remnants of the Union army, bear
ing the shattered remnants of the old fags
as they were carried that night, amid the
applause of thousands, | felt the thrill
that knew was pulsating in de veins Of
the strong, grand men. Why shouldn't
l? They were consecratsd to a cause,
which to those who gathered around them
was holy as honor and truth. ! would
have no faith
IN HOME AND LIBERTY,
if those men did not love their old flags.
So, too, we loved ours. Let US get out of
the universe when hatred OF the South is
called loyalty to the North. 1 am going
to show you that our children should love
their flags. A man is better who has the
nerve to do justice, whatever it costs. Was
there any honor 10 carrying those old flags?
They, too, were woven by the patriotic
hands of Southern women. They were de-
liyered to husbands and brothers cOnsecra-
ted by tears and prayers. Some were rent
With bullets, blackened with gunpowder
aud redeemed with the blood OF the brave. >
Don't we build monuments to the
Confederate dead2 Why Gen. Grant, the
greatest general 10 the Union army, said he
was willing to share in the dedication OF
monument to the Confederate dead. The
man who tries to stir your passions doesn' t
deserve your votes. You see in your pa
pers column after column about rebel flags.
This is the truth. | was there. There
s;erein all that great central city of Macon,
Georgia,
DOZEN CONFEDERATE FLAGS
and fifty thousand Of the stars and stripes,
and yet some people are so cOlor-blind that
they could not see anything but the rebel
tlags, and yet the very carriages that bore
JEFF. Davis, and the horses that drew him,
were covered with Union flags. The very
house that he was in was so covered with
them az to almost blind him. Some
speeches were made. The burden of them
all WA that the Union Was on hrmeT
basis than ever.